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Clive Rice Personal information Full name Clive Edward Butler Rice Born 23 July 1949
Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, Union of South AfricaBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right arm fast-medium Role All-rounder International information National side South Africa ODI debut (cap 7) 10 November 1991 v India Last ODI 14 November 1991 v India Domestic team information Years Team 1992/93–1993/94 Natal 1970/71–1991/92 Transvaal 1988–1989 Scotland 1987 MCC 1975–1987 Nottinghamshire Career statistics Competition ODI FC LA Matches 3 482 479 Runs scored 26 26331 13474 Batting average 13.00 40.95 37.32 100s/50s 0/0 48/137 11/79 Top score 14 246 169 Balls bowled 138 48628 17738 Wickets 2 930 517 Bowling average 57.00 22.49 22.63 5 wickets in innings 0 23 6 10 wickets in match n/a 1 n/a Best bowling 1/46 7/62 6/18 Catches/stumpings 0/- 401/- 175/- Source: CricketArchive, 18 January 2008 Clive Edward Butler Rice (born 23 July 1949) is a former South African international cricketer. An all-rounder, Rice ended his first class cricket career with a batting average of 40.95 and a bowling average of 22.49.
His career coincided directly with South Africa's sporting isolation, and his international experience was limited to his post-prime days. He played three One Day Internationals for South Africa following the country's return from sporting isolation. He was controversially left out of the squads for the one-off Test against the West Indies and the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
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Early and domestic career
Rice began his career with Transvaal in 1969 and was called up for South Africa's (ultimately cancelled) tour of Australia in 1970. In South African domestic cricket he successfully led the 1980s Transvaal, known as the "Mean Machine",[1] to three Castle Currie Cups and other one day competitions victories. Toward the end of his playing career, he played for and captained Natal.
Career in English domestic cricket
Rice played for Nottinghamshire in the English County Championship in a side that also featured internationals Richard Hadlee and Derek Randall. As captain, he led the side to the County Championship title in both 1981 and 1987, winning the prestigious award of being named a Wisden cricketer of the year for his exploits in 1981.[2] He later played for Scotland.
International cricket
Along with other South African players, excluded from international cricket by the sporting boycott of South Africa due to his country's policy of apartheid, Rice joined the controversial World Series Cricket setup.
During the 1980s, a number of rebel cricket teams visited South Africa to play unofficial "Test" matches. Rice captained the home side for the majority of these fixtures.
Rice was able to make his debut in official international cricket in 1991, when he played in—and captained—South Africa's first One Day International, in a match against India at Eden Gardens, Calcutta.[3] Rice finished with averages of 13 with the bat and 57 with the ball from his three One Day International matches.[4]
Later career and personal life
After retirement Rice worked as coach for Nottinghamshire and encouraged Kevin Pietersen to leave South Africa to qualify for England.[5] [6] He currently works for a street-lighting company called Envirolight in Johannesburg and his wife Susan heads a Sports Tour and Bush safari company. The couple have two children.
Match fixing and Spot fixing controversy in Cricket
In early September 2010 Rice claimed in an interview to Fox News that betting syndicates were involved in the deaths of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer and former South African captain Hansie Cronje.
Fox Sports quoted Rice as saying: “These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way.”
Former Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson had earlier told Fox Sports that match-fixing “might not be about money, it might be about extortion, and all the things that go on”.[7]
References
- ^ Player Profile, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 29 March 2009
- ^ Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Retrieved on 29 March 2009
- ^ India v South Africa, South Africa in India 1991/92 (1st ODI), ODI no. 686, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 16 April 2009
- ^ Player Profile, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 16 April 2009
- ^ South Africa's decline because of 'apartheid in reverse', Cricinfo, Retrieved on 29 March 2009
- ^ Rice furious at 'apartheid in reverse', The Telegraph, Retrieved on 24 July 2011
- ^ Mafia killed woolmer and Cronje: Rice
External links
- Clive Rice Sports and Bush Safaris website
- Player Profile: Clive Rice from ESPNcricinfo
- Sunday Times article 03 January, 2010
- Fasmily tree
Sporting positions Preceded by
Mike SmedleyNottinghamshire County cricket captain
1979–1987Succeeded by
Tim RobinsonPreceded by
noneSouth African ODI cricket captain
1991Succeeded by
Kepler WesselsWorld XI squad – World Series Cricket 1 Greig (c) • 2 Amiss • 3 Asif Iqbal • 4 Barlow • 5 Hadlee • 6 Imran Khan • 7 Javed Miandad • 8 Knott (wk) • 9 Le Roux • 10 Haroon Rashid • 11 Majid Khan • 12 Mushtaq Mohammed • 13 Procter • 14 Rice • 15 Richards • 16 Sarfraz Nawaz • 17 John Snow • 18 Taslim Arif (wk) • 19 Underwood • 20 Woolmer • 21 Zaheer AbbasCategories:- 1949 births
- Living people
- South African cricketers
- South Africa One Day International cricketers
- South African cricket captains
- KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
- Nottinghamshire cricketers
- Nottinghamshire cricket captains
- Scotland cricketers
- Gauteng cricketers
- World Series Cricket players
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year
- South African cricket coaches
- People from Johannesburg
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
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